{"id":162,"date":"2009-02-03T15:32:43","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T20:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uht.ebb.myftpupload.com\/?p=162"},"modified":"2018-05-16T09:24:35","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T14:24:35","slug":"ask-the-experts-below-freezing-ceramic-or-laminate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carpetexpress.com\/blog\/ask-the-experts-below-freezing-ceramic-or-laminate\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask the Experts: Below Freezing &#8211; Ceramic or Laminate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?--><p><em><strong>Question:<\/strong> Which product, ceramic tile or laminate flooring, will survive in a house in Wisconsin without heat in the winter months? We go south in the winter.<\/em><\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 150px;\">-Eileen<br>\nFennimore, Wisconsin<\/p><p><strong>Answer:<\/strong> Without heat in a home in Wisconsin, I really could not suggest ceramic or laminate. Any moisture that gets into these products could freeze and cause the tile to break or the laminate to buckle. A porcelain tile would be the best product to use, since it should not crack in freezing weather.<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 150px;\">Thanks for the question!<br>\nJim Young, Jr.<br>\nCarpet Express, Inc.<\/p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Question: Which product, ceramic tile or laminate flooring, will survive in a house in Wisconsin without heat in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,9],"tags":[1361,1363,1356],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-installation","category-laminate-flooring","tag-ask-the-experts","tag-ceramic-tile","tag-laminate-flooring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carpetexpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carpetexpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carpetexpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carpetexpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carpetexpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.carpetexpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5132,"href":"https:\/\/www.carpetexpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/5132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carpetexpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carpetexpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carpetexpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}